Hosting Hubs Update: Services, Pricing, and Highlights

Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 800,000 digital resources from memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. MWDL partners typically work with one of approximately 30 MWDL hosting hubs. Hubs assist partners by providing digital collections training, digitization services, and repository hosting services. Through the hubs model MWDL supports a distributed digital collections network around the Mountain West and works to expand digital library services to additional memory institutions in the region.

In this webinar, Sandra and Rebekah will provide background on the hubs model, explain the different kinds of MWDL hubs, and discuss the need to update the current model of service. Time will be allotted for questions and discussions about the needs of both hubs and partners, and for ideas about how MWDL can modify the hubs model in the future.

4.
MWDL Partnership
Agreement
• Created March 14, 2008
• Not a legal contract but a
“statement of intent.”
• Outlines responsibilities of
partners, hubs, and MWDL as
well as goals, governance,
and guidelines.

30.
Hubs Survey
• Informally interviewed 20 hub
representatives from 18 different
institutions.
• Three main questions:
– Would you prefer an in-person
or virtual hubs meeting?
– What would you like to
get out of a hubs meeting?
– What topics would you like to
discuss?

31.
Hubs Survey:
Question 1
Would you prefer an you prefer an inperson or virtual hubs meeting?
• 100% of respondents said that some inperson element was necessary to
accomplish our goals.

32.
Hub Survey:
Question 2
What would you like to get out of a hubs
meeting?
1. Networking with colleagues
2. Continued training
3. Clarification on the responsibilities of hubs and hub
status
4. Forum to talk about what people are doing and
possible collaborations
5. An updated price list

33.
Hub Survey:
Question 3
What topics would you like to discuss?
1.
2.
3.
4.
CONTENTdm and other alternatives
Best practices
Geospatial and rights metadata
Background of MWDL and where we are going
(including partnership with DPLA)
5. Partnership Agreement

34.
Questions for
consideration
• Does this infrastructure still work?
• Is there anything that isn’t clear?
• How do we feel about the current definition
of “hub”?
• If we were to take on many more small
partners, would this system still work?
• Are there additional services that you would
like to see MWDL provide? That hubs should
provide?